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In this concept video, we're going to take a look at the details of how the arm shallow

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the club during transition.

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This is one of the big movements in the golf swing that separates your high-handy

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capers from your tour pros, because if I fail to shallow the club with my arms during

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transition, it opens me up to shallowing it either early with a cast or late with early extension,

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and both of those are going to limit my flat spot and limit my abilities to start the

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ball consistently.

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So take a look at these examples and hopefully it will help you understand how and why we

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want these arms to shallow during transition.

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So now we're going to take a look at how a couple great ball strikers have described this

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down versus out movement and how amateurs typically interpret it.

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I think you'll be able to see where you might have some struggles or some issues with

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putting it into your own swing.

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But I think that it's one of those key movements that helps build proper pivot and body

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movements on the downswing, so I think it's important that we get on the same page here.

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So in this video, Ben Hogan is describing what he wants the lower body to do.

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But what I want you to do is I want you to watch his upper body as he demonstrates

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this lower body movement.

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So you'll see that basically compared to his chest, his hands stay relatively at the same

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level, right?

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As he goes through this movement.

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So his hands are working more or less across his body as he's demonstrating this.

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They're not really working down towards the golf ball until he reaches that delivery

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position and then lets those arms go through.

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So while he's describing this movement as all lower body, you can see that his arms

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have had this shallow move and they're working more across his body.

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Next we'll take a look at Monorman demonstrating the same thing.

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So now we have a video of Monorman essentially describing what his arms do, what he describes

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as the drop.

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But you'll see that as he does that, his shoulder compared to his body actually stays

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more or less out in front of his chest.

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His arms are not actually dropping down even though he describes it as a drop.

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And then what you'll see is as he works more into the release, you'll see that his arms

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work actually more across his body as opposed to down out towards the golf ball.

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Here he's describing how that right elbow got underneath the left and so if you were to,

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that would be similar to my concept of the don't break my arm.

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But you'll see that as he goes through this, he's basically describing this shallow move

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or this having the club drop behind you, this vision of how the arms actually shallow

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this wing.

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And you'll see that when he demonstrates it, it looks almost nothing like it.

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So now I want to show you a couple amateurs who I think need to work on this and I'll

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even show you one amateur working on it and how often it is interpreted.

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So now here's one of our members who's agreed to let me use this wing and you'll see

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he had kind of more of an upper body dominated swing and so he's trying to get those

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that shallow move and you'll see that the hands are actually working almost vertically

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just like so.

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And as a result, the shaft is actually tipping back this way or getting steeper.

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So even though those hands are working very much down and from the inside of the golf

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ball, that club is moving steeper and steeper and steeper during that pattern.

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That's what's commonly interpreted when you try to drop your arms or what most people

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think of come from the inside and shallow out the swing.

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I'll show you another example of a golfer who actually worked with in person and us

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going through the process.

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So here's a golfer working in sunny Colorado.

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You'll see that this is just during his warm-up so he's not really focused on this at

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all.

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In fact, he has some thoughts that are more geared towards the body and you'll see that

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those hands work very much down and the shaft tends to stand up and steep and even

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as he takes these practice swings.

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So as a result, he'll tend to have this clunky behind the ground contact like so.

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If I were to bring in, I mentioned or I showed him on video what he was doing and I said,

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okay, so I want you to try to really work on getting that shaft to shallow and he's like,

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okay, I got an idea for it.

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Here we go.

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So now he's going to go up towards the top of the swing and he's really going to get

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that shaft to shallow and you'll see that what he actually does is that shaft steepens

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come here to the other one.

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But his hands are just working more and more down back and behind him kind of like so.

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So that's commonly what a lot of amateurs try to do or what they do unconsciously in

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trying to get that shallowing piece.

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Now if you were to replay in the back of your mind what it looked like when Ben Hogan was

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demonstrating his movement.

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So you can see his arms compared to his body are closer to vertical.

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If we were to bring Ben Hogan back up and demonstrate that piece, you'll see that as he does

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this little pump movement.

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You can see that those arms are very much working more across your bodies.

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I know this is a different view, but hopefully you can see what I'm talking about.

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So now let's jump back to this amateur and when he was actually trying to do the drill.

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So basically what I did was I stepped in and made sure that his hands physically could

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not drop and he tried to drop the club.

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So I had my hands right here and I said I want you to let the club drop down behind you

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just like this.

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And so you'll see that as he practices it, hey he's actually getting it to shallow out

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some and look a little bit more like Monorman and Ben Hogan.

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Obviously the club faces not in the same position but you can see that the shaft is working

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out.

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And so as a result of him when he feels that movement you'll see when he actually goes

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to swing the contact with the ground is much more shallow.

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It's no longer clunky and slamming into the ground and it's going to ultimately give him

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a much higher margin for air as he works on the club face.

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So I think that a lot of golfers struggle with this cast pattern or who struggle with

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early extension in the downswing can benefit from this shallowing move during transition.

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And while I have a couple of videos such as downverse out, the water bottle transition,

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things like that, I still think it helps to visualize.

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So hopefully this helps you understand how to apply those drills properly for your swing.

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So if you're the average golfer that's probably all you need is just to see the video

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and see what it looks like.

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But I know that we have a fair number of instructors and kind of what I consider the

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golf nerds who love to study the few who wouldn't win.

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So I'm going to show the 3D graph that essentially shows how we look at this downverse

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out.

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So here's this is lead arm lift.

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So this line is basically showing how much the left arm for a ray hand golfer is either

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raised or depressed compared to the thorax.

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So basically if we look at the one on the left, you'll see during the take away, it pretty

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much stays the same and then it starts lifting during the backswing and it's still lifting

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until you'll see this vertical line represents top of the swing and you'll see it's still

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lifting until just after top of the swing and then it starts working back down towards

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impact.

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Over on the right you'll see more of that kind of dropping and steepening move where you'll

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see it has similar pattern during the take away and then gradually lifts during the backswing.

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But you'll see that just before the top of the swing it starts working down.

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This will be one of those golfers who's going to look like the club is steepening and

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the arms are dropping straight down behind him so it'll feel like he's coming from the

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inside but it doesn't have very much of a shallow piece.

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So I like to give you as much information as I can hopefully this helps you understand

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why this golfer on the left who happens to be a accomplished tour pro.

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It's the ball a lot better than this golfer on the right part of which is what they

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are doing with their arms during transition and how the arms are controlling a big piece

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of the shallowing of the swing.